Record-Low 4.5 Percent of Harvard College Applicants Accepted to Class of 2023

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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"A record-low 4.50 percent of applicants to Harvard College received admissions offers to the Class of 2023, with 1,950 of 43,330 candidates securing places in the class.

The College notified 1,015 students of their acceptances in the regular decision cycle at 7 p.m. Thursday evening. They join 935 applicants admitted through the College’s early action program in December.

This year’s admissions rate is the lowest in College history, down from 4.59 percent last year. This year marks the fifth consecutive application cycle in which the percentage of accepted applicants has decreased. The total number of admitted students in the Class of 2023 has also decreased slightly from last year’s 1,962." …

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/3/29/2023-admit-numbers/

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43,330 Total apply
6,958 Early apply
1,015 Regular admit
935 Early admit
1,950 Total admit
4.5% Total admit rate
13.4% Early admit rate

To figure out the RD acceptance rate, we’d have to know the deferral rate from ED to RD. I haven’t seen Harvard publish this number for the class of 2023. Yale did publish their deferral rate = 56%.

If Harvard deferred at roughly the same rate as Yale, then:
~ 3900 deferred from early to regular

Resulting in a Regular Decision acceptance rate (guesstimate) of approximately 2.6%